..Since a safe and effective vaccine against Japanese encephalitis is now available, outdated guidelines and recommendations have to be revised: travelers to rural areas of Asia should generally be recommended vaccination...

..It is noteworthy that Austria is the only country in Europe that has experienced a decrease in caseload during the last 20 years. This is almost certainly due to the very high vaccine coverage rate of 86 %...

..A further cluster of 12 was reported in August, 2002. Several immigrants traveled by air, making the risk of introducing sudden acute respiratory syndrome a possibility should such illegal immigrations continue...

..Blood levels of mefloquine at that stage were at 1400 ng/ml, thus largely excluding non-compliance and malabsorption. To our knowledge, this is the first case of confirmed prophylaxis failure due to mefloquine resistance in East Africa...

Therapeutic efficacy of chloroquine plus sulphadoxine/ pyrimethamine compared with monotherapy with either chloroquine or sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Laos

Different mutation patterns of atovaquone resistance to Plasmodium falciparum in vitro and in vivo: rapid detection of codon 268 polymorphisms in the cytochrome b as potential in vivo resistance marker